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Care to list you ultimate 'you must see this' list?

Postby Sukunai » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:40 am

We've all pretty much established we are all not just casual anime watchers.
You're a fan just for being here in the first place.
Fanatic might apply if do moire than just settle for watching anime though.

So that all said, what would you list as your 'you must have watched this series' not limiting yourself by genre in any fashion ie if it's anime, it's in the running.

This isn't a top ten listing or even a top 100 listing. It's not about sales figures or age of the anime either.

My list would begin with

Sailormoon
Ranma
Urusei Yatsura
Slayers
Tenchi Muyo

These were the ones that got the ball rolling for me, that opened the flood gates.
I watched a lot of anime in between all of those in bits and pieces, but these are the shows that made me interested in all the rest.
I guess I have been into anime since like 95.
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Re: Care to list you ultimate 'you must see this' list?

Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:02 am

Outlaw Star
Cowboy Bebop
Rurouni Kenshin
Dragon Ball Z
Lupin the 3rd

These, aside from the saturday morning stuff, were my introduction into anime. Let's face it, the old school toonami run was full of the must-see stuff that made a lot of fans.

And others that are must-sees:
Gungrave
Black Lagoon
His and Her Circumstances
5 Centimeters Per Second
Haibane Renmei
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Re: Care to list you ultimate 'you must see this' list?

Postby Ishbalan » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:03 am

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Postby Kariudo » Sun Feb 08, 2009 3:32 pm

Great story, great storytelling. This is the stuff that drew me in and kept me hanging week after week.
Code Geass (R2 as well)
EF- a tale of memories and a tale of melodies
Gundam 00 (S2 as well)
Clannad

The classics, the first 3 are what really got me into anime. Toonami had some good stuff, but [as] gets most of the credit here.
Trigun
Lupin the 3rd
Cowboy Bebop
Outlaw Star

The funny/WTF. Everyone needs a good laugh
FLCL
Dead Leaves
Pani Poni Dash
Full Metal Panic! Fumoffu

Misc. just some good stuff that was entertaining.
GitS SAC (and 2nd Gig)
Eva (classic, yes. But I hated the ending, both of them)
Last Exile
Death Note
.Hack//Sign (I liked Roots too)
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Postby Ishbalan » Sun Feb 08, 2009 4:31 pm

Boku no Pico
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Postby Chiikaboom » Sun Feb 08, 2009 6:21 pm

Cardcaptor Sakura & Kodomo No Omocha.
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Postby Vivaldi » Sun Feb 08, 2009 7:32 pm

Ishbalan wrote:Boku no Pico


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Postby Ishbalan » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:10 pm

Tokyo Tribe 2 :awesome:
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Postby Immorrel » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:20 pm

Well the first anime I watched that I knew was anime and actually got me started was Armitage: Polymatrix and Macross Plus, but previous to that is all the stuff that I used to watch that I never knew was anime until after I did my research. For example

Teknoman (Tekkaman Blade)
Thundercats
Voltron

And I agree with Headhunter, the old school Toonami shows should be on anyone's list since most all of it is iconic.
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Postby Sukunai » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:36 pm

While not numbered among my earlier animes

Azumanga Daioh and Pani Poni Dash are easily likable animes for being just so much silly fun and not really having any downside (in my view).

Noir and Madlax I consider great 'serious drama' animes.
I prefer BGC 2040 over the earlier form. I guess I like the artwork of 2040 more.

Air TV was the first anime to pry money out of me though. Paid an obscene seeming sum of money for it.
Clannad with Afterstory is rapidly becoming an equal of Air TV for me.

But I guess my first truly liked romance anime series was Ah My Goddess. I was so happy to get two more seasons of it.

I like a few of the scifi looking series lioke Blue Gender, but I can be fussy on them.
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Re: Care to list you ultimate 'you must see this' list?

Postby Ishbalan » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:47 pm

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Re: Care to list you ultimate 'you must see this' list?

Postby The Origonal Head Hunter » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:29 am

Sukunai wrote:Azumanga Daioh
I'm going to have to disagree with that on the grounds that in Azumanga, at least the manga anyway, it was hard to get a lot of the humor unless you were Japanese watching the original dub. Too many Japanese puns and cultural references.

And to keep up with Ishbalan's hentai streak, I'll say Story of Little Monica.
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Postby Taokato » Mon Feb 09, 2009 7:16 am

Azumanga Daioh
NGE
Full Metal Panic!
Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo
Elfen Lied
Gantz
School Rumble
Samurai Champloo
Welcome to the NHK

these are my 'musst see' and you must see them (O=
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Re: Care to list you ultimate 'you must see this' list?

Postby Sukunai » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:20 am

The Origonal Head Hunter wrote:
Sukunai wrote:Azumanga Daioh
I'm going to have to disagree with that on the grounds that in Azumanga, at least the manga anyway, it was hard to get a lot of the humor unless you were Japanese watching the original dub. Too many Japanese puns and cultural references.

And to keep up with Ishbalan's hentai streak, I'll say Story of Little Monica.


Hmm well I am not fluent in Japanese cultural idiosyncrasies (beyond the very obvious anime ones), but it never harmed my getting a laugh out of the show.
I think I watched it first as dubbed though, and it is possible the translation just dumped a lot of it too.
I call Azumanga 'slapstick' anime in that it's really not meant to be anything other than funny.
The prodigy girl being an easy target for so much of the usual anime humour. But then I suppose some just don't care for silly 2 dimensional humour as much.

Azumanga gave me one of my current fav outbursts :) (the schoolgirl quote made by the crazy male teacher at the address).
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Re: Care to list you ultimate 'you must see this' list?

Postby hasteroth » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:49 am

Cardcaptor Sakura (Not the English Dub)
Clannad (You saw that coming didn't you?)
Code Geass
Kanon
Lucky Star
Toradora!

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Sailor Moon (Got my Drivers License)
UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie (Gave me the car keys)
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, The (Started the Car)
Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann (Injected the Nitrous)
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